We should be treating this Rudd character as an international outlaw, for reopening the asylum seeker debacle.

Instead, this man has one of the cushiest jobs going and is looking like he might get a second go at being PM!!

Today the Prime Minister of Australia defied the will of the people.

After a majority of our representatives in both our houses of parliament voted to abandon the proposal to exchange asylum seekers for refugees, with Malaysia, the PM stated she will continue to pursue this course in the best interests of Australia.

Dictatorial unrepresentative government has arrived in Australia.

What a load of crap.

Brucey old mate, you know, and I know, that the overwhelming majority of Australians are vehemently opposed to the current crop of country shopping maritime asylum seekers, who are lobbing on the Australian taxpayer. We could not give a sheet about any “international treaties” which none of us directly voted to support, and which we would gladly abrogate in an instant, if the ruling classes ever did what the electorate wanted them to do.

However, the leaders of both the main tweedledum/tweedledee political parties know that they can not ignore the electorate too much, or there will be an electoral backlash in which both will suffer. I noted that nowhere in your sermon did you even mention the will of the Australian people. It is obvious that democracy is an inconvenience to the sort of Australia that you envision.

You have your quixotic humanitarian ideals, and you want them implemented regardless of what your fellow citizens want. That is why your rant is so heavy on finger wagging morality and completely ignores public opinion. The only opinions which you give currency too is to your fellow Internationalists around the world, to whom you claim Australia will be an outlaw state.

Well Bruce, here is two fingers full of righteous indignation to every one of those chardonnay sucking Gucci socialists. Australia is a sovereign state and we will make our own laws. And Bruce, that is the only Human Right that I am interested in. We will decide who comes here and the circumstances by which they arrive. This opinion is shared by all right thinking people in all of the western countries now besieged by the people of failed priest and mullah ridden states, who breed like flies, and who’s religious and cultural values will always make their societies dysfunctional.

The times that are a changin' Bruce. You had better get with the program, or it is you and your friends who will become "outlaws" in your own countries.

Where have you been for the last year or 3 rexw?

It has taken that long of the Oz public kicking little Julia in the butt, hard & often, to get her to remove Brown from her ear, & start listening to the Oz people.

A huge percentage of Oz is sick to death of ideas like yours, held by a very small percentage of the public, being imposed on the majority.

I think Labor has finally realised it doesn't have to buy the ratbag vote a dozen times. The ratbags are welded on, at least those who haven't gone mouldy green, & beyond redemption. No point loosing the votes of sensible people by pandering to ratbags on every policy.

Lets hope they show the same sense on a few other policies in the coming months. It would be nice to be able to put Labor back into the worth considering box, from the beyond hope box.

Hasbeen,

More "wisdom"?

Wasn't it you who suggested in another thread that we should lock asylum seekers in a room and provide them with a very sharp knife?

Quote:
"If they do kill themselves, we will know they were genuine,(probably frightened of what the family will do to them for wasting the money), & should give them a decent burial.

If not, they were lying, we don't want them, send them back."

If this is an example of "Oz" sensibilities, perhaps we are all in the "beyond hope" box.

I watched Lateline last night and was totally confused.
Tony Jones spoke of a Kurdish asylum seeker who apparently
had been assessed as a genuine refugee however his wife and four year old son were in detention on Christmas Island and were in danger of being sent back - to where? Tony Jones could not get a satisfactory answer. I just didn't get it - how one family member could be accepted and yet his wife and child who apparently had arrived a bit later to Australia were now being considered under new "laws" since
the government had come up with the "Malaysian" solution. I found all this a bit bizarre.

As for the asylum issue in general - I wonder how many in the community really feel the way some posters seem to think they do?
Perhaps having a Referendum on the subject would be the way to find out. That should satisfy everyone.